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PREP07 Test 2
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Over the last five years, demand for hotel rooms in Cenopolis has increased significantly, as has the average price Cenopolis hotels charge for rooms. These trends are projected to continue for the next several years. In response to this economic forecast, Centennial Commercial, a real estate developer, is considering a plan to convert several unoccupied office buildings it owns in Cenopolis into hotels in order to maximize its revenues from these properties.Which of the following would it be most useful for Centennial Commercial to know in evaluating the plan it is considering?
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PREP07 Test 2
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Traveler: Southern Airways has a far worse safety record than Air Dacentaria over the past few years, in terms of both the frequency of accidents and the severity of accidents. Therefore, although Air Dacentaria is slightly more expensive, I will choose it over Southern Airways for my flight from Pederton to Dacenta, since it is worth paying extra to have a safer flight.Which of the following, if true, casts the most serious doubt on the traveler's argument?
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PREP07 Test 2
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Researchers have found that when very overweight people, who tend to have relatively low metabolic rates, lose weight primarily through dieting, their metabolisms generally remain unchanged. They will thus burn significantly fewer calories at the new weight than do people whose weight is normally at that level. Such newly thin persons will, therefore, ultimately regain weight until their body size again matches their metabolic rate.The conclusion of the argument above depends on which of the following assumptions?
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PREP07 Test 2
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When people evade income taxes by not declaring taxable income, a vicious cycle results. Tax evasion forces lawmakers to raise income tax rates, which causes the tax burden on nonevading taxpayers to become heavier. This, in turn, encourages even more taxpayers to evade income taxes by hiding taxable income.The vicious cycle described above could not result unless which of the following were true?
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GWD
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The ice on the front windshield of the car had formed when moisture condensed during the night. The ice melted quickly after the car was warmed up the next morning because the defrosting vent, which blows on the front windshield, was turned on full force.Which of the following, if true, most seriously jeopardizes the validity of the explanation for the speed with which the ice melted?
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A proposed ordinance requires the installation in new homes of sprinklers automatically triggered by the presence of a fire. However, a home builder argued that because more than ninety percent of residential fires are extinguished by a household member, residential sprinklers would only marginally decrease property damage caused by residential fires.Which of the following, if true, would most seriously weaken the home builder's argument?
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In the aftermath of a worldwide stock-market crash, Country T claimed that the severity of the stock-market crash it experienced resulted from the accelerated process of denationalization many of its industries underwent shortly before the crash.Which of the following, if it could be carried out, would be most useful in an evaluation of Country T's assessment of the causes of the severity of its stock-market crash?
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OG12 OG15
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Kale has more nutritional value than spinach. But since collard greens have more nutritional value than lettuce, it follows that kale has more nutritional value than lettuce.Any of the following, if introduced into the argument as an additional premise, makes the argument abovelogically correct EXCEPT:
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OG12 OG15 OG16 OG17 OG18
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Which of the following best describes the function of the last sentence of the passage?
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OG12
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The author of the passage is primarily concerned with doing which of the following?
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OG12 OG15 OG16
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The passage suggests which of the following about the use of temporary employment by firms during the 1980s?
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OG12 OG15 OG16
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The passage suggests which of the following about the workers who took temporary jobs during the 1980s?
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OG12 OG15 OG16
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In the context of the passage, the word "excessive" (highlight) most closely corresponds to which of the following phrases?
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OG12 OG15 OG16 OG17 GWD
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According to the passage, which of the following was true of the treaty establishing the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation?
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OG12 OG15 OG16 OG17 GWD
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[line:10:enable]The passage suggests that, if the criteria discussed in highlight text were the only criteria for establishing a reservation`s water rights, which of the following would be true?
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OG12 OG15 OG16 OG17
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Which of the following most accurately summarizes the relationship between Arizona v. California in highlight text, and the criteria citing the Winters doctrine in the last sentence of first paragraph?
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OG12 OG15 OG16 OG17 GWD
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The author cites the fact that the Rio Grande pueblos were never formally withdrawn from public lands primarily in order to do which of the following?
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OG12
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The last paragraph performs which of the following functions in the passage?
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OG12
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The passage warns of which of the following dangers?
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OG12
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It can be inferred from the passage that the author believes which of the following about the complaint mentioned in the last paragraph?
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